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Buy Foreclosure Property

Question: Is it a smart time to buy property, especially condos at foreclosure auctions for an investment?

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Answer: Base in your area, location,and price.
try to focus to buy HUD homes first,it' very easy,and fast.
short selling take for ever.
buy foreclose condo or home in very good area.
if the market improve , it will be the first one to shoot up.
be earful and take your time and study the property.
i think the market did not hit bottom yet.
but i know their are very good investment homes.
best wishes

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Foreclosed Government Homes

Question: I see this program on tv alot and want to know if anyone has used it to buy government tax foreclosed homes?

John Beck is famous on tv for his pennies on the dollar program. Has anyone ever bought house that cheap before using his program? If so Please enlighten me, and tell me where you get the lists. And what you paid for it, and any other details you can tell me. I find it hard to believe that some one would loose their house for $378.52 just because they didn't pay the taxes. Thanks in advance. Anything personnel cant be sent to my email this is a yahoo address realestatehero
He states in his program that these are actual purchase prices and they are free and clear. And after buying you can sell, keep, rent, ect.
he doesnt state that after you buy you have to pay the taxes, he states that the price you buy is the back tax.

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Answer: This is basically a scam.

Does it sound logical that a person that owns a home that has value will lose that house just because of a few years of back taxes? First of all, if the property has a mortgage there is no-way that the bank will allow this property to be lost due to back taxes. The lender would step-up and pay these taxes.

The only properties that are lost like that is bare land when the owner discovers that the property is basically worthless. No water, no utilities, land locked by other parcels without any legal "right-of-way" to get onto the parcel. I've seen owners try and give these worthless plots away to a charity just for the tax deduction. The charities refuse them because they don't want to be responsible for the taxes either.

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Bank Foreclosures

Question: help with understanding bank owned foreclosures?

If a bank owns a house that is worth 200,000 lets say. And lets also say that all that is owed on the house is 100,000. As a buyer, if I put in a bid of 115,000(to cover closing costs) is the bank going to accept this offer. I heard a rumor that all the bank wants to do is collect the money owed on the house and whatever they recieve after that, they give to the original owners. Is this true? Help clarify some of this for me. I am in the state of Texas if that makes a difference. Thanks.
Ya but lets say that whatever I am offering is covering all of the banks cost, if this is so, then what's to say that the bank won't sell me the house with a low-ball price?

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Answer: If the mortgage balance was $100,000, it's possible there's another $10,000 in attorney fees, and an additional $10,000 in accrued interest. I don't know the redemption period in Texas, but in many states, you can squat in your house for a year before getting kicked out, all the while interest is accruing.

So it's never quite that simple. And beware of any additional liens, foreclosures sometimes have them.

And yes, in most cases, after the bank has gotten every single penny of their own money back, they have to give the rest to the prior owner. So they might very well not care how much that is, but they do work within a framework of attempting to get the maximum value for their homes, based on their estimates of what the homes true value is.

And they also have to weigh their risks of having another 2 months go by before they get another qualified offer, while their carrying costs and attorney review fees etc... keep rising. So they're always looking to take the first fair and reasonable qualified offer that they can get.

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